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authorRichard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>2022-01-12 10:37:57 +0000
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-01-12 10:37:57 +0000
commitd41c4654db03dc76812e98222feb62668a1bf94c (patch)
treea5bf1ca964f40b71ec35f676bd626bc0bf7c08bf /docker/Dockerfile
parentComplement environment variable name change and update .gitignore. (#11718) (diff)
downloadsynapse-d41c4654db03dc76812e98222feb62668a1bf94c.tar.xz
Use buildkit's cache feature to speed up docker builds (#11691)
Having spent much of the last week attempting to run complement tests from somewhere with damp string instead of internet... something had to be done.
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diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 2bdc607e66..306f75ae56 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 # Dockerfile to build the matrixdotorg/synapse docker images.
 #
+# Note that it uses features which are only available in BuildKit - see
+# https://docs.docker.com/go/buildkit/ for more information.
+#
 # To build the image, run `docker build` command from the root of the
 # synapse repository:
 #
-#    docker build -f docker/Dockerfile .
+#    DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -f docker/Dockerfile .
 #
 # There is an optional PYTHON_VERSION build argument which sets the
 # version of python to build against: for example:
 #
-#    docker build -f docker/Dockerfile --build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.6 .
+#    DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -f docker/Dockerfile --build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.9 .
 #
 
 ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.8
@@ -19,7 +22,16 @@ ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.8
 FROM docker.io/python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-slim as builder
 
 # install the OS build deps
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+#
+# RUN --mount is specific to buildkit and is documented at
+# https://github.com/moby/buildkit/blob/master/frontend/dockerfile/docs/syntax.md#build-mounts-run---mount.
+# Here we use it to set up a cache for apt, to improve rebuild speeds on
+# slow connections.
+#
+RUN \
+   --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
+   --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \
+ apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     build-essential \
     libffi-dev \
     libjpeg-dev \
@@ -44,7 +56,8 @@ COPY synapse/python_dependencies.py /synapse/synapse/python_dependencies.py
 # used while you develop on the source
 #
 # This is aiming at installing the `install_requires` and `extras_require` from `setup.py`
-RUN pip install --prefix="/install" --no-warn-script-location \
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip \
+  pip install --prefix="/install" --no-warn-script-location \
     /synapse[all]
 
 # Copy over the rest of the project
@@ -66,7 +79,10 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.documentation='https://github.com/matrix-org/syna
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source='https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse.git'
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses='Apache-2.0'
 
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+RUN \
+   --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
+   --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \
+  apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     curl \
     gosu \
     libjpeg62-turbo \